High Times has never been higher, what with the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state.
Circulation is up. Advertising is up. And the magazine’s Web sites, which were under a million a year ago, are now getting 3 million visitors.
“Everything has exploded,” one of the magazine’s shareholders, lawyer Michael Kennedy, told me.
Kennedy — whose house on Georgica Beach in East Hampton has been featured in countless movies and commercials — said the mag’s annual Cannabis Cup convention in Denver will be bigger than ever this year.
“We did it for 25 years in Amsterdam, because that was the only place we could do it,” Kennedy said.
More than 30,000 tickets have been sold for the Cannabis Cup on April 20, where 700 vendors will have booths displaying their products.
Kennedy said High Times is also setting up a growth fund to finance startups and existing marijuana producers who want to expand.
“Business is booming,” he said.
Earlier this year, rapper B-Real of the group Cypress Hill took home “Stoner of the Year” honors — an accolade previously bestowed upon Bill Murray, rapper Wiz Khalifa and Seth Rogen (twice).